Peter Lanyon
Forget Me Not
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November 23, 04:09 PM GMT
Estimate
20,000 - 30,000 GBP
Lot Details
Description
Peter Lanyon
1918 - 1964
Forget Me Not
signed Lanyon and dated 61 (lower right); also signed Peter Lanyon, titled and dated 1961 (on the reverse)
oil on board
unframed: 35 by 32cm.; 13¾ by 12½in.
framed: 38 by 34.5cm.; 15 by 13½in.
Executed in 1961.
We are grateful to Toby Treves for his kind assistance with the cataloguing of the present work.
Forget Me Not is a new painting to emerge in public by Peter Lanyon, having been acquired directly from the artist after it was painted in 1961 and remained in a family private collection. The original owner was one of the founders of Troika Pottery in St Ives and befriended Lanyon in the 50s.
The subject is Britt Saether, a model drawn by many St Ives artists at the time. She was an important 'muse' and an inspiration for some important larger canvases by Lanyon such as his 1961 Beach Girl (National Museum Wales, Cardiff). Typical of Lanyon, we see the artist blur the boundaries between abstraction, figuration and landscape - an aesthetic approach which defined his celebrated career.
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